The phases of the moon art and science activity I am sharing today builds upon those previous lessons to reinforce some facts about both the moon’s surface and the phases of the moon during the course of each 28 day moon cycle.

We then reviewed what we had learned about the surface of the moon, especially how it is very dusty. We decided to model that in our artwork.

So while the glue was still wet, QBoy and XGirl poured craft sand onto the glue. (Our craft sand was a mixture of colors left over from previous projects, but plain white craft sand would also work well.)

At this point we stopped and took a break. Then, a couple of hours later when the glue was dry, we poured the excess sand off the paper.

And voila! We had a beautiful, dusty painting of a first quarter moon!

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